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to: JIM ARCHER
from: CLAY FISHER
date: 1996-11-29 13:23:00
subject: Quake Sound

Hi Jim, wuzup man?
 JA> I'm running Warp 4, and trying to get the sound to work with Quake. I
 JA> don't know if it works or not, since Doom sound didn't. I have a PAS16
Quake works. (for most people)
 JA> Basic, and I have multimedia installed for the PAS half. I have tried
 JA> setting the BLASTER environment varibal, but no luck. When Quake
 JA> starts, it displays an error message about not being able to initialize
 JA> something, but it scrolls off way too fast to read.
 JA> Anyhow, is Quake sound susposed to work and, if so, is there a trick?
Quake won't work with sound over here unless my dos drivers are loaded. Open 

dos session, insert the dos install disk for the card, and run it. Close the
session, open it back up (wasn't that easier than a reboot? ), and run
quake.
The drivers will load on each dos session now, so if this is annoying, copy
autoexec.bat to sndexec.bat or something, and copy the backup of your 
utoexec
back to autoexec.bat. Then you can specify which gets loaded for each session
in it's properties. Also in session properties, you'll see dos_device, and 
ou
can REM or delete the sound devices if you don't want them to run in a 
session.
Don't forget though, os/2 gives out the sound card on a first come, first 
serve
basis, so make sure it's free by not running anything else that wants it 
before
you load quake.
 -=> In the immortal words of Homer Simpson... DOH! <=-
... Windows:  Proof that Micro$oft has a roomful of monkeys with keyboards.
--- Terminate 4.00/Pro
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